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1973 Amazing Adventures 16 CGC 9.6

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Latest addition...at last.

The title of this journal was either going to be ?Getting outbid blows? or ?Latest addition?. I?m thankful it?s the latter and I?m still trippin that I actually own this comic (I elected to wait until the book was actually in my hand before posting this). It?s been a long stressful crazy road. This is the first comic I?ve ever bought from an auction site (company name withheld) outside of eBay and the experience has been nerve-racking to say the least. The auction was announced a MONTH before it began so there was plenty of time for the anticipation to build. It seemed like forever before the auction finally started and then I didn?t want to bid right away because it might generate more interest in the book than I wanted, and drive up the price. At the same time I didn?t want to wait too long and risk something going wrong (I?ve kicked myself before for waiting too long to bid and forgetting about it until the auction was already over). So about three days before the auction was scheduled to end, I placed a large bid and became ?high bidder?. Now I just had to wait until Saturday at 10:00PM EST for the auction to end to see if I won.

This is where it gets weird. I tried to login to the auction website at around 6:30PM on Saturday to see how I was doing, but I couldn?t get on. I was finally able to login and check the auction about 15 minutes or so AFTER the auction was scheduled to end. I was still high bidder, but just barely. The current bid was within a few dollars of my maximum bid amount, but the auction showed an end date/time of Sunday at 10:00PM EST. Say what?!? The auction should have ended, but instead it?s been extended another day? I immediately e-mailed the tech support/customer service team for the auction site to find out what happened and express my concerns (I should have won the book, but instead the chances are now very good that I?ll get outbid). Their customer support was very understanding and supportive, and advised they would end the listing immediately, making me the winner of the auction. Sure enough, I brought up my account and it said ?Congratulations! You are winner of this book.? Score!!!

Then about 30 minutes later I get an e-mail from a senior executive at the auction website who explained the problem. Turns out the images were so large on all their current auctions and so many people were trying to access the site that their systems crashed. Because of this, bidders were not able to login and place their bids during the last couple hours of the auctions. Their solution was to disallow viewing of the large scans toward the end of the auctions going forward and to extend the current auctions another 24 hours so that anyone who was unable to access the site to place their bids would have the opportunity to do so. I'm thinking, that?s great but I was already assured this book was mine...right? Or are you saying that I?m out of luck now?

The next day I checked the auction and it still showed that I had won, but it didn?t give me the option of completing my checkout. I sent an e-mail to customer support and asked why I could not purchase the book. I was told a customer service manager would be contacting me on Monday to discuss it. Uh-oh, that doesn?t sound good, so I asked if I had cause for concern. The senior executive responded this time and assured me there was no need to be concerned. He stated I had won the comic, but an invoice had to be created manually. He advised my credit card would be charged and my book would be sent. It took a few days, but my credit card was finally charged. Even then, it wasn?t until I received the book yesterday that I was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief. Talk about a rollercoaster of emotions! I?m thankful to the Staff and the Executive Team at this auction website for making the right call and I will hopefully be using them again in the near future.

So why all the fuss over this book you ask? There are many reasons?it?s from the early Bronze Age (1973), it?s the HIGHEST graded copy on the census (only 11 copies exist in this grade out of only 46 total graded copies), it features a terrific battle cover with one of my favorite villains (Juggernaut), not to mention The Avengers and Spider-man, widely recognized as the best looking cover of the entire series, and it rarely EVER becomes available for sale (according to GPAnalysis there is only 1 copy of this book for sale on average in this grade each year; the last sale was 04/08/2007). I am extremely fortunate and thankful to have added this book to my collection.

Til next time.

 

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